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SI Reports filters not flexible

The reporting utility in SI is very good, but additional flexibility in the filter section is desirable.
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

SPP dashboard to marked out following the RBAC settings

In the Dashboard page, we saw the coverage. Although some users are scoped using RBAC functionality, the coverage is not updated in this regard.Same about the policy preview Is there a way to show the user his own perimeter? for exemple DBA team s...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

More control over "disable sessions" for client nodes

Sometimes it may be necessary to prevent clients from connecting to a Spectrum Protect Server to perform backups. Reasons for this can be, for example, maintenance work on the Spectrum Protect Server, where access to the storage pool is not given....
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Snooze alert in Storage Insights

As a SI user admin , I want to be able to Snooze a notification so that I can prioritize the work to be done
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

API enhancements for invoicing/billing

In the web gui for Scale you can easily get the accounts and used storage under the "Object / Accounts" button. But there is no simple way to retrieve this information using api/rest. (There is not even a scheduled report function for it). This is...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CSM Console Messages Need to Show Correct Pair Direction

CSM log messages always show for example "Starting all pairs in role pair H1-H2" even if the start command was issued for H2-H1 instead. This can be very confusing and misleading when trying to check back and see what commands were issued and what...
about 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Add real rolling update function for CNSA Version Updates

Today if we make an Update on CNSA from one Version to the next one, we see no mangement of the applikationworkload on the OCP-worker. This generate outages in our applikation-pods that are not aceptable, because of high application service level....
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Lock retention on SLAs to keep data from being expired/deleted

Option to define a SLA that will lock the snapshots from deletion until further notice.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Storage plug-in for VMware needs the ability to assign cache io group

When using the IBM Storage plugin for VMware to create RDM or when using the IBM VASA to create vVols we need to ability to assign the cache io group. when we create a new vdisk on storage pool io group1 we want the cache io group1 assign and not ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

SVCDTA DB2 cancel restore

When restore of DB2 is executed, there is no possibility to cancel restore and try with another one, until restore is completed in background.We use NOCOPY option for backup. FMM19183E IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot adapter for the SAN Volume Contr...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration